This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. It was generated because a ref change was pushed to the repository containing the project "CMU Common Lisp". The branch, 20f-branch has been updated via 227e5085c4e1bc0792c77a2cf0f06bfa518e4a38 (commit) from 8329e1d53ee57bf375c63675642b21358790ea2b (commit) Those revisions listed above that are new to this repository have not appeared on any other notification email; so we list those revisions in full, below. - Log ----------------------------------------------------------------- commit 227e5085c4e1bc0792c77a2cf0f06bfa518e4a38 Author: Raymond Toy <toy.raymond@gmail.com> Date: Wed Oct 1 20:56:23 2014 -0700 Editorial fixes. * Remove [In progress] * Rephrase some items. * Fix typos. diff --git a/src/general-info/release-20f.txt b/src/general-info/release-20f.txt index 2cdc460..1dc4fb1 100644 --- a/src/general-info/release-20f.txt +++ b/src/general-info/release-20f.txt @@ -1,10 +1,8 @@ ========================== C M U C L 20 f ============================= -[In Progress] - The CMUCL project is pleased to announce the release of CMUCL 20f. This is a major release which contains numerous enhancements and -bug fixes from the 20c release. +bug fixes from the 20e release. CMUCL is a free, high performance implementation of the Common Lisp programming language which runs on most major Unix platforms. It @@ -19,12 +17,12 @@ over the Internet, and is mostly in the public domain. New in this release: * Known issues: - * Support for x87 will be dropped after the 2014-04 snapshot. All - further snapshots will require an x86 chip that supports sse2. - SSE2 was introduced with the Pentium 4 in 2001. + * Support for x87 has been dropped (effective with the 2014-05 + snapshot). All further releases will require an x86 chip that + supports sse2. SSE2 was introduced with the Pentium 4 in 2001. * Feature enhancements - * Trig functions are signficantly faster. + * Trig functions are significantly faster. * Accuracy of trig functions improved. (Previously, they could be off by one or two ulp.) * RUN-PROGRAM accepts :ELEMENT-TYPE to allow specifying the @@ -49,14 +47,14 @@ New in this release: * Micro-optimization: (expt -1 power) just returns -1 or 1 without actually computing the power. * Run-time checks for zero pages on newly allocated pages has been - disabled now that the lazy zeroing of the heap pages has been - the default for several months now. + disabled. Lazy zeroing of the heap pages is the default + now. which can speed up GC and allocation. * Add lisp-unit as a contrib. Use (require :lisp-unit) to load it. Precompiled fasls are not included. * CMUCL now uses fdlibm C functions to implement the special functions. All platforms use this so they should produce identical results everywhere. - * Consing for the trig functions is removed now since we call out + * Consing for the trig functions is reduced now since we call out to fdlibm instead of implementing them in Lisp. * Source location information has been added for DEFINE-CONDITION. (From Helmut Eller.) @@ -79,12 +77,12 @@ New in this release: * On the ppc port, handle FP exceptions a bit better by not failing if cmucl is unable to interpret the instruction that caused the exception. - * Microoptimization for sparc in rounding a double-float to a + * Micro-optimization for sparc in rounding a double-float to a 32-bit signed integer. * The compiler can now derive the type of ROUND. (But more work is needed.) * Fix an issue with multi-processing destroy-process doesn't take - effect for a schedulable processbecause it has no run-reason + effect for a schedulable process because it has no run-reason and/or arrest-reason. * ANSI compliance fixes: @@ -120,7 +118,7 @@ New in this release: cleared. * In some situations KERNEL:DOUBLE-FLOAT-BITS on x86 would cause a segfault. This has been fixed. - * For linux, motifd is no longer a 64-bit app. + * For Linux, motifd is no longer a 64-bit app. * (exp 1d0) now returns the correctly rounded value of e. Previously, it was off by one bit. * INTEGER-DECODE-FLOAT returns the correct values for denormal ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary of changes: src/general-info/release-20f.txt | 24 +++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) hooks/post-receive -- CMU Common Lisp